Aspects économiques et sociaux du Carcassès au Moyen Age (9ème - 13ème siècles) : Etudes archéozoologiques des sites du Clos d'Ugnac et de La Sabatière (Aude, France)

Identificador:  TDX:2998

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX2998

Autores:  Bertin, Laetitia

Resumen:
The zooarchaeological study of the medieval ensilage areas of the Clos d'Ugnac and the La Sabatière allows us to understand the socio-economic practices of Carcassès humans during the Middle Ages (9th – 14th century), such as ; farming, hunting, fishing, diet, animal-resource exploitation, handicrafts. The historical, political and economical contexts represented by these two sites contributes to understanding the complexity of archeological sites (intra and inter-family conflicts, invasions, wars, domanial system, feudal system, large silage areas). These sites have yielded, respectively, 10.244 and 1.788 faunal remains. The biodiversity (cattles, goats, sheeps, pigs, horses, donkeys, mules/hinnies, Canidae, Felines, deer, roe deer, small mammals, rodents, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, molluscs), the characterization of each animal’s features (age, sex, body mass, height of the withers, gracility, robustness), the health status and mode used by humans to exploit the animals, the anthopogenic markers and the artifacts were studied. The wealth of information collected from these two sites make them clearly exceptional sources of information for this timefarme. Finally, comparison with the other medieval sites of Carcassès allows to consider these two archeological sites as places of artisanal and food production destined either for the lords (owners of these domains), or the local markets and/or fairs of Carcassonne, and perhaps even the Court of Carcassonne. Thus, the Clos d'Ugnac site and, to a lesser extent, La Sabatière, by their richness and complexity, can be considered as reference sites for Carcassès or Languedoc silage areas.